10 Wrestling Matches That Seriously Took The Piss
For when funny ain't money.
Taking the piss is so prevalent in wrestling presently that our first venture into it was published less than a month before cover star Chris Jericho went from being the messee to the messer after temporarily losing his Thursday nights to arguing with folk online about ratings demographics.
Biting to some Sasha Banks patter and showing his a*se in the process, millionaire dual dream-liver Jericho came across like an embittered pillock. Within weeks, he'd woven his online wobbly lip into a new gimmick (with t-shirt included) as the 'DemoGod'.
When it comes to wrestling mockery, he's not as good at taking it as he is giving, but he's so f*cking outstanding at the latter that the former suddenly doesn't matter. It's contributed to his every wonderful reinvention and the loaded resumé that will leave him a legacy as one of the industry's best ever. Parking twitter spats and the like, his work stands a hundred foot above all that as a monument to his real brilliance.
His matches always respected this art form, just as he very clearly did from the very beginning. These ones, however...
10. Al Snow Vs The Big Boss Man (WWE Unforgiven 1999)
Now a rather quaint footnote of the Attitude Era compared to some of the bigger atrocities committed by Vince Russo during the peak of his creative powers, the Kennel From Hell was one of the final turds he curled off before making the move to WCW. The dogs around ringside, presumably in tribute, did the same.
For the other sh*t-obsessed Vince in this grim Sports Entertainment theatre, more is always more, which should highlight just how awful the Kennel From Hell had to be in order for the company to never attempt the preposterous amalgamation of two of their biggest gimmick matches ever again.
A mess of two cages and an addition of dogs that was both under and over-thought, the contest felt as neutered as the canines patrolling the arena floor.
Emerging from the darkly comical angle in which Big Boss Man abducted, murdered and cooked Al Snow's pet dog Pepper, it was all in place for the pantomime lawman to get his comeuppance via one giant bite on the a*se, but the dogs and their handlers weren't nearly intimidating enough as both wrestlers scrambled through p*ss and sh*t to escape the outer cage.